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About this blog: I am a perpetually hungry twenty-something journalist, born and raised in Menlo Park and currently working at the Palo Alto Weekly as education and youth staff writer. I graduated from USC with a major in Spanish and a minor in jo... (More)

About this blog: I am a perpetually hungry twenty-something journalist, born and raised in Menlo Park and currently working at the Palo Alto Weekly as education and youth staff writer. I graduated from USC with a major in Spanish and a minor in journalism. Though my first love is journalism, food is a close second. I am constantly on the lookout for new restaurants to try, building an ever-expanding "to eat" list. As a journalist, I'm always trolling news sources and social media websites with an eye for local food news, from restaurant openings and closings to emerging food trends. When I was a teenager growing up in Menlo Park, I always drove up to the city on weekends with the singular purpose of finding a better meal than I could at home. But in the past year or so, the Peninsula's food culture has been totally transformed, with many new restaurants opening and a continuous stream of San Francisco restaurants coming south to open Peninsula outposts. Don't navigate this food boom hungry and alone! Feed me your tips on new chefs and eats and together we'll share them with the broader community. (Hide)

Alexander’s Steakhouse opening a Mountain View bakery

Uploaded: Jan 13, 2014

Alexander's Steakhouse  which operates two restaurants of that name in San Francisco and Cupertino as well as The Sea by Alexander's Steakhouse in Palo Alto  is making a foray into new culinary territory: baking.

Signs for the new venture, dubbed Alexander's Patisserie, went up in the windows of 209 Castro St. in downtown Mountain View last week.

"We're going to mimic a fine French bakery or some of the boutique bakeries that they have in Los Angeles," said Josh Rousseu, vice president of "front-of-house" operations at Alexander's.

This means artisan bread, fine pastries and "boutique sandwiches, but I wouldn't consider it a deli in any facet," Rousseu said. They'll also sell their own brand of coffee through coffee company Equator Coffees & Teas.

Alexander's Patisserie will be led by a pastry sous chef currently working at a well-known restaurant in Las Vegas, Rousseu said.

Rousseu (who, according to his Facebook, attended Mountain View High School) said that Alexander's bakes bread in-house for its San Francisco restaurant, but hopes to expand that to all locations with the opening of Alexander's Patisserie "midway through this year."

Expansion of the Alexander's empire comes about a year and some after Jeffrey Stout, chief operating officer and founding chef of Alexander's Steakhouse in Cupertino and San Francisco, was let go just before The Sea opened in Palo Alto in November 2012.

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